Well, why not? I'm all for the hearts and birds of paradise, but I also love the sexual diamonds of the world who express the body's poetry with sexual candour. And as the right wing politicians pledge to ban porn, I find myself watching a beautiful trailer for Public Sex, Private Lives -- a forthcoming documentary that looks at the beauteous work of sex workers and pro-dommes:
'Public Sex, Private Lives' documentary film trailer from Simone Jude on Vimeo.
What a powerful, feminist reminder that consensual porn and public sex are so often utterly human and inspiring. There's a lot of fair-trade, high quality porn out there (if you like queer porn, try Crashpad, for instance) and today, I'm sending the porn world a valentine.
Regular readers may already have read last year's article in Scientific American, "The Sunny Side of Smut", which reveals recent studies of porn-viewing men. Porn does not make us aggressive human beings. Rather, it taps our erotic creativity, teaches us to listen to our fantasies and liberates us to be ourselves with others.
And I'd like to see how the anti-porn candidates intend to define porn in order to ban it. Will they be marching into people's houses seizing their videos of last night's romp? "I know it when I see it," isn't exactly unbiased! Technically speaking, trying to ban on-screen sex is like trying to ban on-screen crime*. What is crime and what isn't crime? Pick-pocketing a dollar? Jay-walking?
So. Happy Valentine's day to fair-trade porn and erotica.
I love you. Be yourself.
Video via tinynibbles
*This is simply a way of showing how difficult banning anything creative is. I'm not suggesting in any way that sex on-screen is a crime!
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